Rick Perry: New risk plan needed after incident at Hanford nuclear weapons plant

Energy Secretary Rick Perry said Thursday that the emergency at the Hanford nuclear weapons facility has subsided, but there is still the need to develop a longer-term risk management plan.

“I am pleased to announce that our dedicated and talented team of experts at the Department of Energy’s Hanford site have completed filling in the hole discovered at the PUREX tunnel,” Perry said in a Thursday statement. “This was accomplished swiftly and safely to help prevent any further complications.”